The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-06-23
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC,

murderer.
The legislature OF Pennsylvania, which
adjourned last week, Appropriated over
81, 0O0,C COZ for patriotic purposes growing
out of the recent "unpleasantness;" $685., coo
for schools for soldiers orphans; ss25, 900
for soldiers homes; Si75,0J) for monuments
at Gettysburg, including MEMORIALS for
Mead and Hancock, who were Pennsylvani-
ans; $40, 900 for monu nent at Hanover in
that stat, to commemorate the first engage
ment on free soil; $500 for monument for
Corp Rhial the first Union soldier who fell
on Pennsylvania soil an | $3.50 for monu-
ment to Jennie Wade, a Gettysburg girl,
who was killed whilo making bread for our
Soldiers.
Mr., Powderly has written letter advis"
ing a permanent settlement OF the Worcester
county difficulties Without allowing pride
to stand in the way.
| Steps have been taken toward the erection
Of a Wendell Phillips memorial building
Tho $50 anniversary OF the settlement OF
the town of Duxbury WINS celebrated June IL.
James S. Atwood Of Chelsea, while at
tempting TO alight from street car on Tres
mont street Boston, fell beneath the wheels.
1t was found he had received fracture Of
| four toes and wound Of the foot which OK
| pos Cd the bone.
Gen. Paine has decided upon name for
his new s!oop-the Volunteer.
The town of Malone, has offered $500 for
reward, in addition to that offered by
Franklin county, making $1,000 in all, for the
arrest Of George A. King for the murder OF
Eugene Van Norman of Niagara county at
Malone on the night of June l.
Mrs Peal Lacey of New York, a hand.
iome young woman % years old, who had
teen married less than a month, shot herself
and died in few hours. Honesickness and
regret for having married bartender
against the wishes OF her parents, who are
highly respected, seem to have been the mo-
tives which caused her to take her life.
George Gould's now yacht is to be called
the Hildegarde.
The Dakota Grand Lodge Of Masons passed
| this resolution:
That no person who is engaged in the
business of keeping saloon, or of retailing
intoXicat NJ liquors to be used as a beverage,
shall he initiated in any subordinate lodge in
| this jurisdiction; nor shall any brother
Mason who is engaged in such business be
received in any lodge by atliliation."
Johanna Casey, the alleged insane immi-
grant for who the Cunard company had to
pay $1,000 for allowing her to land, has
returned tie Liverpool.
Jake Sharp spent Sunday in Ludlow street
Jail, in the rooms occupied by Tweed and
Ward
Bernhard in her tour Of IA months and
2'e performances, cleared $4,000.
Robbers secu ed $4,000 by cleaning out
an express train near Flatonia, Texas.
The first train that ever ran, or attempted
to lun, west of the Allegheny mountains
with crude petroleum, was mail train OF
the Pennsylvania railroad on the 18th inst
The experiment was complete success.
Splendid time was made, and there was nc
annoyance from smoke or cinders. The
process is the invention OF Russian scien
list. Other trains have since bean run with
equally satisfactory results
Mrs. President Cleveland visitol Welk
College, Aurora, n. y.
A crisis in the affairs of Plymouth churcl
is considered to be fast az preaching. 1t ha,
/ hut H.
been done before.
Five men were terribly injured by an ex
plosion in mine at Pittston Junction Pa.
Senator Ransom cmphatically denies tbs
report that he has been rendered the position
Of secretary Of the interior,
Henry V. Lesley, the defaulting secretary
and J. A. L. Wilson, the defaulting treas
urer Of the Chesapeake and Delaware Cana
Company, have been cap,urol.
DcDonald and McGarigle, the Chicag,
boodlers, have been convicted and sentenced
to three years in the penitentiary; about g
others are soon to foil ow them.
By the retirement of Naval Constr ucto
Murch, it is probable that Constructor Pooll
now at the New York Navy Yard, will b
raised to the relative rank of captain.
Canon Wherefore addressed a large audi
ence in New York on the evils Of intern
perance.
Another earthquake shock has been fol
at Summervile S. C.
Miss Kearney of Terre Haute, Ind, wa
fired at by DR.. Staudacber whose suit sh
had rejected. Her life saved by corse
,teel.
Mr.. Moores balloon at St. Louis, Mo.
has attained height of Il, 900 feet accord
ing to the instruments of the United State
signal service. This is the highest on recor
in America, the Thermometer marking :
degrees
The supreme court of Missouri will rende
IN opinion affirming the judgement of th
ST. Louis criminal court in the case O
Walter H. Lennox- Maxwell, and sentencin
him to be executed Maxwell it will |
remembered, is the English adventurer VIII
murdered his travelling companion, Pre!lel
in April 1855, at the Southern hotel, in S.
Louis, packed his victim In n trunk, labelle
the body, 80 perish oil traitors to I'll
great cause" and thence fled to Australia
whence he was brought by the st. Lou
authorities.
FOREIGN.
The Canadian cabinet has agreed to ask @
Appropriation of $500, 0J0 to assist the $50
900 French Canadians now resident in Il